FAITH IN DEMOCRACY.
Neither ht Engfend nor in India was faith in democraey on the wane, deelared Yiseount Halifax, the Lord Privy Seal and former Viceroy of Ihdia, speaking to the East India Association in London. Less than a generation ago, Lord Halifax continued, the gradual spread of demoeracy throughout the civilised world seemed as natural and inevitable as it seemed right. The state of muoh of the world to-day might snggest that the tide had turned. There were some who said, on & superflcial view, that democraey was now on its triaV some who said that it had been tried already and found wanting. "But that is not our view, nor India's," Lord Halifax added. "We do not admit that democraoy, oompared with other systems of Government, is weak in principle. Rather do we believe that where democraoy has failed that fallure can almost invariably be traced to efforts to attempt too much, either in tob short a time or in the wrong way. In planning India's constitutional advance Indians and Englishmen, in joint counoil, have drawn upon all their resources of experience and judgment. All that is needed for success," deelared Lord Halifax, "is a measure of tolerance and goodwill, without which no Constitution can work satisfactorily or for long." -
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 121, 8 June 1937, Page 6
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